George Fawcett

Born in Alexandria, Virginia, in 1860, Fawcett graduated from the University of Virginia.{{cite book|last1=Katchmer|first1=George A.|title=A Biographical Dictionary of Silent Film Western Actors and Actresses|date=2009|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9781476609058|pages=113–114|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VnGeCQAAQBAJ&q=%22George+Fawcett%22&pg=PA113|access-date=April 17, 2018|language=en}} His initial inclination was to be an attorney, but he became a Shakespearean actor instead.{{cite news |title=He Goes From Pauper to Magnate |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1924/08/10/archives/he-goes-from-pauper-to-magnate.html |access-date=September 5, 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=August 10, 1924 |page=X 2}}

Fawcett had his own acting troupe, the Fawcett Stock Company.{{cite news|title=George Fawcett Takes Big Part in Great Movie Film|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/19302478/george_fawcett/|work=The Lima News|date=September 19, 1915|location=Ohio, Lima|page=14|via = Newspapers.com|access-date = April 16, 2018}} {{Open access}} He appeared on stage in such plays as Ghosts (1905) with Mary Shaw, The Squaw Man (1905) with William Faversham, The Great John Ganton (1909) with an up-and-coming actress Laurette Taylor in the cast, and Getting a Polish (1910) with actress May Irwin. He portrayed Inspector Cochrane in the 1914-1915 hit Broadway play The Law of the Land at the 48th Street Theatre.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1914/10/01/archives/law-of-the-land-grim-melodrama-the-heroine-of-george-broadhursts.html?searchResultPosition=1|title=Law of the Land' Grim Melodrama; The Heroine of George Broadhurst's New Play Kills Her Husband. Often Painfully Tense But Laughter Enters Into the Compound and the Playing Is of the Best.|work=The New York Times|date=October 1, 1914|page= 11}}

Fawcett's film debut came in 1915 in The Majesty of the Law,{{cite news |title=George Fawcett makes screen debut |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/84775407/george-fawcett/ |access-date=September 5, 2021 |work=Nashville Banner |date=September 11, 1915 |page=27|via = Newspapers.com}} and he appeared in 151 films between 1915 and 1933.{{Citation needed |date=September 2021}} He also directed films. He returned to the stage in 1930 in a production of The Great John Ganton at the Vine Theater in Los Angeles.{{cite news |title=Actor seeks lost zest |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/84774580/george-fawcett/ |access-date=September 5, 2021 |work=Los Angeles Times |date=May 18, 1930 |page=Part III 11|via = Newspapers.com}}

Fawcett married actress Percy Haswell, and they had one daughter.{{cite news |title=Mrs. George Fawcett |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1945/06/14/archives/mrs-george-fawcett-actress-whose-stage-name-was-percy-haswell-dies.html |access-date=September 5, 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=June 14, 1945 |page=19}} Fawcett died in Nantucket, Massachusetts in 1939.

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• The Habit of Happiness (1916)
• The Crisis (1916)
• Panthea (1917)
• Shirley Kaye (1917)
• The Cinderella Man (1917)
• The Heart of Texas Ryan (1917)
• The Great Love (1918)
• The Beloved Traitor (1918)
• The Talk of the Town (1918)
• Lillian Gish in a Liberty Loan Appeal (1918)
• The Hope Chest (1918)
• A Romance of Happy Valley (1919)
• I'll Get Him Yet (1919)
• The Railroader (1919)
• True Heart Susie (1919)
• The Greatest Question (1919)
• Babs (1920)
• Dangerous Business (1920)
• Good References (1920)
• Two Weeks (1920)
• Paying the Piper (1921)
• Sentimental Tommy (1921)
• Chivalrous Charley (1921)
• Nobody (1921)
• Burn 'Em Up Barnes (1921)
• Little Italy (1921)
• Such a Little Queen (1921) (*director only)
• Forever (1921)
• Hush Money (1921)
• The Way of a Maid (1921)
• Isle of Doubt (1922)
• Destiny's Isle (1922)
• Polly of the Follies (1922)
• The Curse of Drink (1922)
• Ebb Tide (1922)
• Beyond the Rainbow (1922)
• Silas Marner (1922)
• John Smith (1922)
• Manslaughter (1922)
• His Wife's Husband (1922)
• Java Head (1923)
• The Woman With Four Faces (1923)
• His Children's Children (1923)
• West of the Water Tower (1923)
• Just Like a Woman (1923)
• Pied Piper Malone (1924)
• Triumph (1924)
• The Bedroom Window (1924)
• A Lost Lady (1924)
• In Every Woman's Life (1924)
• The Sporting Venus (1925)
• The Sporting Chance (1925)
• The Merry Widow (1925)
• The Circle (1925)
• Thank You (1925)
• Some Pun'kins (1925)
• The Verdict (1925)
• The Fighting Cub (1925)
• Souls for Sables (1925)
• Go Straight (1925)
• There You Are! (1926)
• Out of the Storm (1926)
• The Flaming Frontier (1926)
• Under Western Skies (1926)
• Son of the Sheik (1926)
• Flesh and the Devil (1926)
• Two Can Play (1926)
• The Little Firebrand (1926)
• See You in Jail (1927)
• Riding to Fame (1927)
• Duty's Reward (1927)
• Snowbound (1927)
• Rich Men's Sons (1927)
• Tillie the Toiler (1927)
• Hard-Boiled Haggerty (1927)
• Spring Fever (1927)
• Love (1927)
• The Enemy (1927)
• The Wedding March (1928)
• Tempest (1928)
• The Little Wildcat (1928)
• Prowlers of the Sea (1928)
• Lady of the Pavements (1929)
• Fancy Baggage (1929)
• Tide of Empire (1929)
• The Four Feathers (1929)
• The Gamblers (1929)
• Wonder of Women (1929)
• Hearts in Exile (1929)
• The Bad One (1930)
• Swing High (1930)
• Ladies of Leisure (1930)
• Hello Sister (1930)
• A Woman of Experience (1931)
• Hello, Sister! (1933)

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• [http://archives.nypl.org/the/18869 George Fawcett and Percy Haswell Fawcett papers, 1857–1903], held by the Billy Rose Theatre Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

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